A taste of what's coming in Rails 2.1
Posted by David April 01, 2008 @ 11:28 PM
Rails 2.1 is not far off the horizon and we’ve been adding a ton of extra deliciously nice goodies in preparation of its release lately. As always, the good Ryan Daigle has been keeping a watchful eye on the changelog and has been documenting some of the new features. The latest stars are:
Very exciting!!
Built-in timezone support will end my nightmares.
It has an expected release date?
A big +1 for the OpenID 2.x support. Directed identity and attribute exchange here we come…
Michael Koziarski mentioned Rails 2.1 in his talk about “What’s new in rails 2.0” at Ruby Fools in copenhagen – and damn named_scope looks really awesome..!
Can’t wait till it gets out of beta.
All the good stuff!
Gem Dependencies, a time saver for all of us, will make deployment, and development, even more pleasure event.
Optimizing communication with data base is one of the key issues in performance race. More tools that can help us in this task are always welcome.
Time zones are nightmares of any programmers that deal with it especially engaging historical data and daylight time savings rules. Hope it will be brighter in this gray dark area.
I miss one more thing in 2.1 plan. Build in i18n.
Great news! About caching: Are there any plans to add functionality like CachedModel (which seems to be dead) to ActiveRecord? Many projects do fine with caching on the view level (page, action, fragment), but others like heavily personalised sites would benefit a lot from this (reducing number of DB queries).
Anyway I’m really looking forward to Rails 2.1!
Can’t wait!
Any plan for adopting ‘nested has_many :through’ in the near future?
http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/6461
So!
When can we buy the new book(s) (complete with all the missing info about RESTful web development with Rails)?
More than one of us is dying to know.
WOW! Love the new additions… great job to all involved. How far away is that horizon?
Can anybody confirm rumours that Rails 2.1 will be working fine in Ruby 1.9?
Jaroslaw, Rails has been running on Ruby 1.9 since December 2007. No need for rumors when everybody can give it a try themselves ;) There’s one Ruby bug holding up full compatibility. Do consider, however, the hundreds of third-party libraries and gems that haven’t been tested, much less updated, for 1.9 yet.
has_finder addition seems like a great move! Thanks!
Very nice new features, especially named_scope!
When comes I18N?
Love the new additions… great job to all involved.